Five Records I Listened to on the Way to Work (Tallahassee; Summer, 1999)

August 25th, 2003
  1. Silkworm / In the West
  2. Creeper Lagoon / I Become Small and Go
  3. Guided by Voices / Do the Collapse
  4. Pavement / Terror Twilight
  5. Elliott Smith / XO

Five (presumably) fake personality tests (and what I think my result would be)

July 9th, 2003
  1. Which piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken are you? (thigh)
  2. Which abusive celebrity parent are you? (Joan Crawford)
  3. Which unreleased Jerry Lewis vehicle are you? (The Day the Clown Cried)
  4. Which difficult calisthenic are you? (sit ups)
  5. Which odd euphemism for sexual intercourse are you? (genital congress)

Five terrible fake Brian Wilson songs from the mid-70s

July 3rd, 2003
  1. Envelopes are Good for Mailing Letters
  2. (We’re Having) Leftover Pot Roast for Lunch
  3. 12:15, 12:15–It’s Almost 12:16
  4. Mike Keeps Hollering (at Me and My Imaginary Friend)
  5. French Fries in My Beard (Make Me Happy, But Sometimes Very Sad)

Five extraordinary food and drink deals within three blocks of our flat

June 25th, 2003
  1. 16oz. of BBQ pork chow mein & 3 dim sum of your choice: $2.33 (Bay Pastry)
  2. Forestville 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon, 1.5l bottle: $8.49 (Sevan Liquors [a/k/a “The Little Laotian Man”])
  3. 1/4 BBQ duck, 1/4 soy sauce chicken, served over baby bok choy and enormous pile of white rice: $3.50 (8 Immortals Seafood Restaurant)
  4. Huge-ass steak burrito with avocado, rice, and beans: $4.00 (El Burrito Express)
  5. 3 crispy tacos: $2.00 w/coupon (Taco Bell/KFC)

Five Celebrities Who Wrote Me Back

June 24th, 2003
  1. H.R. Pufnstuf (1970)
  2. Tony the Tiger (1973)
  3. Santa (numerous)
  4. Gerald Ford (1975)
  5. Jonathan Richman (1988)

Five LPs the RCA Music Club Erroneously Sent to My House, 1978

June 24th, 2003
  1. The Beach Boys / Greatest Hits
  2. The Monkees / Greatest Hits
  3. KISS / Destroyer
  4. Peter Frampton / Comes Alive
  5. Dolly Parton / The Best of…

Five Actors I Constantly Confuse with One Another

June 24th, 2003
  1. Brian Dennehy
  2. Dolph Sweet
  3. Wilford Brimley
  4. Charles Durning
  5. That one guy who’s on Law & Order sometimes

Five Things You Might Want to Reconsider

June 24th, 2003
  1. Relining your own brakes
  2. Wearing that tube-top
  3. Ending your emails with “Cheers!”
  4. Naming the kid “Tyler”
  5. Watching that same “Friends” again

Five things Ozzy Osbourne would like you to do for him tonight

June 23rd, 2003
  1. Put your hands in the air!
  2. Go crazy!
  3. Make some noise!
  4. Put your hands in the fucking air!
  5. Clap them fucking hands!

Five Good Places to be Menaced by Bullies

June 18th, 2003
  1. Playground at recess
  2. That place in the woods where the bad kids smoke
  3. Behind the Burger Chef
  4. Parking lot of the skating rink
  5. At the mall, outside “Hoffritz for Cutlery”

Five terrible fake movies on Lifetime this week (and who each stars)

June 18th, 2003
  1. “Bring Back my Baby!” (Merdith Baxter)
  2. “Hey, That’s my Baby You’ve Got!” (Suzanne Somers)
  3. “Baby, Come Back” (Mariel Hemingway)
  4. “My Baby is Missing!” (Anne Heche)
  5. “Baby in a Tree: A True Story” (Mariette Hartley)

Five things anyone in earshot should legally be permitted to do to a car for as long as its alarm is falsely blaring

April 28th, 2003
  1. Hit fenders repeatedly with a ball-peen hammer
  2. Defecate on windshield
  3. Break into trunk, fill with AOL® discs
  4. Throw razor-sharp lawn darts at tires
  5. Draw pee-pees and woo-woos on the driver-side door

Five Childhood Taunts or Local Indie Rock Bands

April 17th, 2003
  1. No Shit Sherlock
  2. You Rot
  3. A Homo Sez What?
  4. Sped!
  5. Doy

Five guesses at the number you’re thinking of right now

April 10th, 2003
  1. 37
  2. 1
  3. 5
  4. 10
  5. you’re not thinking of a number

Five grating things about that chick from Marketing

April 9th, 2003
  1. Freaky French manicure constantly inspected and maintained
  2. Seems to really enjoy saying “Solutions Seminar” over and over
  3. Cell phone’s “Für Elise” ringtone
  4. Thumb ring thought to be quietly boho, perhaps in a T.G.I. Friday’s kind of way
  5. Loves that fucking speakerphone, doesn’t she?

Five phrases I very rarely use

March 27th, 2003
  1. my nigga
  2. bodacious rack
  3. tequila poppers
  4. fully monetized
  5. mental floss

Five karmic burdens I’ll be burning off for years

March 24th, 2003
  1. I used to underbid other web developers by saying “The Requirements Process? Fuck that! They’re trying to soak you!” (1997)
  2. I used to forward things I thought were funny to lots of people via email (1994)
  3. I voted for Nader/LaDuke (2000)
  4. I used to be a telemarketer (1984)
  5. I used to “snake” on (mean) people’s hamburgers at McDonald’s (1985)

Five shitty bands that play the lounge in that hotel near your airport

March 15th, 2003
  1. Paolo Frechetti’s Original “Zodiac”
  2. Gravitage
  3. Fünk Mechanicz!
  4. “New Zodiac,” featuring Rob Volaré and Martin “Mook” Beelman
  5. The Feelin’ Fines

Five donations that, frankly, the food bank has had just about enough of

March 13th, 2003
  1. O’Hurlington’s Beet Majesty in Unrendered Goo: 12-oz. Can
  2. Generic-brand 12-Bean Ranchero Puffs with Cornsilk Dip’n Sauce: FunPak™ of 5
  3. Mysterious Lady Friend’s Pork Torquelinas in Brine: 14-oz. can (with attached Brinevelope)
  4. “No Fucking Way is This Flan!” (aka N.F.W.I.T.F.®): 12 4-oz. pellets
  5. Shiftless José’s Organic Taco-style Shell Product with Embarcadero Cheezey Drizzlin’s: 15-piece “¡Bueno Suerte!” case

Five terrible names for local retail stores

March 13th, 2003
  1. Pricey McMarkup’s House of Suspicious Deals
  2. Hot Fence Electronics Village
  3. Kostly Kornerz
  4. Chez Ripoffski: A Retailerié
  5. Misleadington’s Big Box